Jonas Valenciunas: known Wolves killer.

We went to the tree lighting ceremony in Rice Park tonight. Because we love Saint Paul.

People should be allowed to have a THC seltzer if they want to

I can't imagine a more destructive force in Saint Paul than these ghouls. www.startribune.com/madison-equi...

I am really furious about this.

The federal deal to end the shutdown will make hemp-derived THC products in Minnesota essentially illegal, jeopardizing over 5,000 licensed businesses and $200 million a year. This is a reckless interference into Minnesota's marketplace and Congress needs to fix it before irreparable harm is done.

If I was a Democrat in a state with a large THC beverage distribution market, I would be saying things like "Donald Trump and his Republican friends want to make doing weed illegal again."

Dua Lipa (?) has a book club (??) and it is so incredibly smart and joyful to listen to (??!?!?!!!) Like what isn't she capable of? She interviews Percival Everett and David Szalay and reads some phenomenal books. It's remarkable.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Wow. Can't say much else. The overhead corona was unbelievable. The most intense reds and greens. ❤️💚😍💃 She'll be dancing until sunrise. I visited Franconia Sculpture Park over summer and it has been on my aurora photo bucket list ever since. That's where I went last night. Schafer, Minnesota.

Northern lights!

I did not know St. Paul was home to the largest speed-puzzle contest. I did not know there were speed-puzzle contests, until now. Really fun feature by @tangledupinfood.bsky.social for @racketmn.com on this recent phenomenon. (Gift link.) racketmn.com/how-minnesot...

One Battle After Another was astonishingly good. God, I love the magic of movies.

I've got the day off. Kid is at daycare. Wife is working. Decided to go to the movie theater.

I know it's a little early for tomorrow's sandwich alert but I turned these figs into a jam and then put them in a grilled cheese with bacon and brie and it turned out like this.

Well, at least now that lyin' snake of a Louisiana oil man Mike Johnson has to bring the House back into session. Let's see what kind of mess he makes of this.

Rudy you psychopath

Saint Paul

Day follows night and rental property managers opposed to progressive candidates. Essential reporting. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

I'm boppin btwn 2 books rn. One: insightful, hopeful, and both enlightening to our current moment and a unique history of an era and region foreign to me. The other: infuriating, fills me with that singular pessimism engendered by the grotesque contours of American capitalism. All things in balance.

Fascinating map from Peter. Basically this maps says if we did a Land Value Tax, green would have taxes go down, red taxes go up.

lol lmao that's like 7% of GDP

This is what oligarchy looks like: If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break. If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry. Obscene.

Here's an incredible election result that's being slept on: Duluth passed a first-in-the-state Tenants Right to Repair ordinance! TakeAction MN and its ascendant Duluth Tenants Union fought hard for this ballot question and won a huge victory for tenants rights in a market which really needs it

Aftyn is a great organizer and is focused on the right issues. She was a champion in Tennessee for banning junk fees and would be great in Congress.

I love this beautiful city.

Minnesota Capitol Mall, as seen from the State Capitol just now

For those who don’t know, Lina Khan is John Wick/Baba Yaga to Wall Street and billionaires

Amazon is quietly raising prices much more than its competition. While many companies are raising prices and blaming tariffs, Amazon prices have skyrocketed by an average of 12.8% this year. Their biggest competitors, Walmart and Target, have raised prices about 5%. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/a...

Add it to the library of other maps that explain everything about a city.

I’m forever grateful for the work that Mayor @melvincarter.bsky.social has done to build a better Saint Paul. In spite of all of the challenges in the last eight years, he’s moved our city forward in ways big and small, and our community is better off for it.

Note to self: read it

Lina Khan is on Mayor Mandami's transition team and Tim Wu's new book drops today? The rumors of our demise were greatly exaggerated. share.google/uW0V6MI1xQb9...

Not sure if I see the path for Carter. But RCV is a wild card.

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

Did a cool thing today which brought up north of Black Bear so I got to have a sandwich from Northern Waters Smoke Haus and brought home some smoked fish.

I think seeing Ilhan tell Joe Rad to fuck off was an elixir to my soul.

We went over to the Como Zoo today and the lines at all of the Mold-o-ramas were 6, 7 people deep. Nostalgia is one helluva drug.

Stiff arm into the wall off. What a win.

Accidentally bought 2.5 lbs of dried figs from Costco awhile back. So now I'm making a massive batch of fig preserves to get me through the winter.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

SHORT VERSION: I’m voting yes on both ballot questions & @melvincarter.bsky.social for Mayor. LONG VERSION: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's not even 7pm and I've already started eating my kids Halloween candy.

OK. I don't know why I did this, but I wrote up my run down of what I see as the condition of Saint Paul and then why I choose to support Mayor Carter leaflet.pub/ab326e22-655...

🧵🏠 St. Paul renters deserve safe, dignified homes — not landlords who ignore our tenant protection laws. 📢 Vote YES on Question 1 by Nov. 4 so the City of St. Paul can fight for all of us, no exceptions. Learn more from tenants' rights attorneys: www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

Please join me tonight at the Central Library in Minneapolis for an important discussion about mass violence. Dr. James Densley will talk about why mass shootings happen and what we can do to prevent them. This will be our first live podcast recording for “We Don’t Have to Choose.”

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I like seeing this report from @rooseveltinstitute.org reflecting on the Biden administration and how to build a better government after Trump. Politics & governance are two different things entirely, & the two parties take vastly different approaches. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Buddy looks like Gandalf in the Shire in this pic